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Approximate Inference

1 method 131 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Approximate Inference methods are used within the context of Bayesian inference to approximate (intractable) posteriors. The most popular category were Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods; more recently variational methods have become popular. Below you can find a continuously updating list of approximate inference methods.

Methods

All 1 methods in this collection, most-tagged first. Year is the archive's introduced_year; the archive stores 2000 when it has none, shown here as “–”. Papers counts distinct papers the archive tags with the method. Click a heading to sort.

ABC Approximate Bayesian Computation – 131